It has been reported lately that Church and State have agreed to work together on various social projects. Excellent news!

A clear clarion call to invest in a society built on dialogue and solidarity.

But I feel that we have already missed the bus, as Bishop Charles Scicluna has very aptly put it.

He doubts whether we have already boarded the rapid express to a sort of secularisation that shuns God’s commandments.

In a recent interview, Mgr Paul Cremona lamented that the present crisis affecting marriages and the family are obviously saddening him. In this context, the introduction of divorce and civil union bills did nothing to improve matters.

In fact, we have already lost a substantial part of our Maltese identity, strongly built on a religious culture dating back hundred of years.

Any future dangerous legislations, harmful to morals, which are in the pipeline should be rescinded and shelved.

Considerable damage has already been done.

Appropriately enough, one of the intercession prayers of the Epiphany Mass, “We pray O Lord for our country” would certainly help our leaders to make the right decisions, so that our society will eventually revert back onto the right path.